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Re: Cell Computing

From: "R. Paul McCarty" <>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 12:04:26 +0000

> Neill Newman wrote:
> 
> this was posted on www.slashdot.org today, anybody know much about it
> ??
> 
> <snip from cell computing page>
> P200 CardPC Features
> 
> The newest member of the CardPC family is an ultra-compact
> AT-compatible ISA motherboard that supports 200 MHz Intel Pentium
> processors with MMX technology. The complete system consists of a
> CPU, Intel chipset, Trident Cyber9320 PCI graphics controller with 1
> MByte VRAM, National Semiconductor Super I/O chip, two serial
> ports, one parallel port, up to 128 MBytes of DRAM, industry-standard
> Phoenix PicoBIOS, and interfaces for LCD and CRT. The entire
> CardPC measures just 85.6 x 54 x 12.7 mm (3.4 x 2.1 x 0.5 inches) and
> dissipates 4.5 Watts at 200 MHz in benchmarks with 10% MMX
> instructions.

My pet peeve power usage; according to their web site
(http://www.cellcomputing.com/third/prodp54.html) the max operating
power consumption is listed as 7.3 Watts.  In my experience most cpus
operate at or very near their max power consumption, so I would be
surprised if this unit averaged 4.5 watts over the course of a day.  But
maybe its as good as they say.  as an aside the other pentium flavors
are: 133MHz (9.7wattmax), 166MHz (6.6wattsmax).

Otherwise this looks like a fantastic unit.  Especially since you can
get one with 128MB on board. 

sweet!

-Paul
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